CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White TOMB

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 165784

bboyminn:

> > As to not feeling empathy for Harry and Ginny, and
> > thinking it is because JKR is not good at writing
> > 'love scenes', let me say that we are never going to
> > see, and should have never expected to see, anything
> > even remotely close to a 'love scene' in the HP books.
> > That is simply not what these books are about. Any
> > platonic, more intimate, or even physical love is
> > going to be referenced in the most indirect and
> > metaphorical manner.

Magpie:

> JKR tends to write romance as plot points and 
> not as real explorations of specific feelings 
> between characters and I think that works fine 
> for the books. But I think that's also the reason 
> shipping takes place most off the page. You get 
> when characters are supposed to fancy each other, 
> but you don't feel it with them. At least that's my experience.

houyhnhnm:

a_svirn mentioned Jane Austin as an example of 
an author who doesn't write physical love scenes.  
Another is Mary Stewart.  These are a couple of 
typical Mary Stewart love scenes:

Later....
Much later....

Yet I care about the romantic couples created by 
both authors.  For all the snogging that goes on, 
Harry and Ginny (or any of the other pairings in 
GoF and HBP) just leave me cold.  It could be 
because Austin and Stewart write from the point 
of view of the female characters. (We are in the 
heads of Austin's heroines and Stewart's romances 
are written in the first person.)  But I think 
Magpie is right, too.  JKR is not interested in 
real explorations of feelings between the characters.  
The romances serve the plot.